On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 22:25:42 -0600 Eric Christopherson <eric@...>
writes:
>Steg Belsky wrote:
>> > LISHANA-DENI: Israel
>> > LISHANAN: Israel
>> > LISHANID NOSHAN: Israel
>> I just think all these "lishan..." language names sound very cool :)
>What do they mean? Something related to loshn (language)?
Yup, I think they all mean something like "our language". Although
_lishanid noshan_ looks to me like it could mean "our old language", from
the root YShN. I've never seen any kind of _-id_ possessive suffix,
though.
>> > SHUADIT: France
>> My "history of Hebrew" book says that Chuadit ( << Yehudit,
>"Jewish") has
>> some very unusual sound shifts, such as /s/ >> /f/, as in _sus_
>(horse)
>> /fuf/, and the /j/ >> /S/ change found in the name of the language
>> itself.
>I think I read that even some /t/s became /f/. Freaky :)
But cool :) , and understandable. In some accents/dialects of Hebrew,
one of the three /s/ phonemes is an allophone of /t/ , so what affects
one /s/ could affect the other /s/s.
>> > YEVANIC: Israel
>> Judeo-Greek? (Yavan = Greece)
>No, it's probably the language spoken by Jews who live on Yavin :) You
>didn't know about the Jewish contribution to the Rebellion, did you?
>:)
....i don't get it...
-Stephen (Steg)
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